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Between 1946 and 1949, there was something of an undeclared war between the Republic of China and the Soviets (along with their Mongolian allies). WI it all escalated further and the Pei-ta-shan Incident had triggered a full-scale Soviet intervention in Sinkiang?

Would a Soviet intervention have pushed the United States to intervene more deeply in the Chinese Civil war? Even to intervene on a similar scale to the Korean War? (IMO that is highly unlikely - everything I've read indicates that the US was very leery of getting sucked into China, were exasperated with the Chinese Nationalists and still politically unwilling to engage in a major war so soon after WW2.)

And if the Soviets did conquer Sinkiang and turn it into a puppet state, what would the effects be on the geopolitics of the Cold War?

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